>>9
constant unexplainable networking problems in Vista.
Might or might not be a driver issue. Intel finally released a driver that actually works for their wireless garbage a month ago, taking only two years to do so. That said, it's more retarded than before for sure.
>>11
Windows Search doesn't fucking work ever ever ever.
Oh, I though it was only me? Surely they wouldn't miss such a tremendous defect, right? I have to disable indexing so I can actually use search, otherwise about 20% of the files don't show up. I tried to diagnose it but no dice.
"This program may not have installed correctly" after the fact. Worst possible solution to the backwards-compatibility problem.
Oh god.
"Windows has applied some compatibility settings. I won't tell you what they are, and I won't let you turn them off. Try again, good luck!"
>>15
Programs and Features takes minutes just to list what I have installed. I know there's a ton of backward compatibility bullshit around there, but is it really so hard to speed this up?
Actually it's not, it can be done under 100ms, all the data is already under a registry key. It might need to calculate hard disk usage, but it could and should be done on the background after the list has been shown. It runs much better than XP though. Also, see:
http://wistinga.online.fr/safarp/ - kinda sad if you ask me about it.
Windows Photo Gallery, which happens to be the default image viewer, is a piece of crap. It loads far too slowly for something that is the default picture viewer. And to add insult to injury, it can't even crop PNG images.
Oh, it can't show animated GIFs either. But it can show videos, as long as they are either shitty camera MJPEGs or Windows Media Video bullshit, regardless of which codecs you have installed. Remember: it's not a image viewer, it's a "digital photo" piece of shit. It's a miracle it supports PNGs to begin with. I recall MS saying that the only reason it supports GIFs is because "some users had PHOTOS in that format". Also, yay for asymmetry: open GIFs in IE but do show them when traversing the directory with WPG.
Which, by the way, took longer to install than Windows itself.
For me, initial installation was 30min, SP1 was literally over 3h. That's nothing though, before SP1 every update took tens of minutes to install. Probably more than 100h spent installing security updates in all.
Also, I agree wholeheartedly on Explorer sucking donkey balls. It's amazingly broken. I suspected it stores folder settings using some sort of hash for the folder name, and they picked up a terrible one and it's marred with collisions, but I never bothered to check. Now excuse me while I go back to rate and assign genres to my
fucking executables.
Anybody has tried Windows 7? I don't really expect any fixes but it'd be nice to know beforehand it's going to be as broken.